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warm temperatures, making it a pleasant, albeit slightly cooler day.  Aidan McGivern, Met Office presenter and meteorologist, said: “Remarkably warm for the first morning of May, but a big temperature contrast by the afternoon as a cold front sinks south, bringing showers to Scotland and Northern

informed the Board that the Met Office’s success in the Computer Weekly Social Media awards was a very big success against stiff competition. • JH informed the Board about a visit from Netherlands Met Service, KNMI • JH also discussed his visit to American Met Society conference, where he had talked about

, providing detailed information to aid decision-making across the public sector and private industry. Enormously ambitious project Dr Jean Innes, CEO at The Alan Turing Institute, said: “This project aims to tackle the big hold-out problem in weather prediction – fast and accurate prediction of impactful

impact our lungs, and enter our blood stream, damaging our heart or brain. The more of these pollutants we breathe, the higher the risk of harm and the bigger impact it can have on our health. There are many causes of air pollution. Outdoor air pollution’s caused by: • vehicles (cars, vans, planes

complex patterns in weather phenomena. These AI weather models can already compete with the current generation of NWP models and, for some applications, exceed their performance at a fraction of the computational cost.  Big tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and Huawei have made

be for predicting cloud amounts accurately, which can have a big impact on the accuracy of temperature and sunshine forecasts. Simon explained: “Once you get into the detail of forecasting specific cloud amounts in specific locations, it takes a certain amount of skill, from both weather models

contrasts that develop across the North Atlantic as a result of this will help strengthen the jet stream, which plays a big role in the weather we get in the UK.  “The jet stream will help to develop low pressure systems which are likely to affect the UK between Christmas and New Year. These will bring

or strong, with gales mainly affecting coastal areas. Temperatures are likely to be near average or just below for the time of year.  Met Office presenter and meteorologist, Alex Burkill, said: "A big talking point for Tuesday is a wave of cloud and more persistent rain that's pushing into parts

) or clockwise (in the southern hemisphere). The whole storm system may be five to six miles high and 300 to 400 miles wide, although sometimes can be even bigger. It typically moves forward at speeds of 10-15 m.p.h., but can travel as fast as 40 m.p.h. The term 'hurricane' is usually restricted

and so they are not retired officially and the North Indian Ocean region has not gone through one cycle of its list of names yet. Other ‘names’ were discounted because they were not proper names, these include: Armegeddon, Apocalypse, Baldrick, Big Boss, Bilbo, BlackHeart, Bluetooth, branch wobbler